- From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:15:19 -0600 (MDT)
- To: public-html@w3.org
In section 1.4 (Terminology) it's still not 100% clear to me whether "HTML elements" such as those that would be returned by HTMLCollection.namedItem(key), would include elements with names not found in certain unmentioned specifications such as HTML 4.01. I mean, it's insufficient to just say "UAs conforming to this specification will place elements in HTML" -- which elements are those? -- "in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace". Which elements, if any, would not be in that namespace? I encounter HTML documents all the time with custom elements in them; would such elements be required to be in that namespace? As a facetious example, <DIV><MARQUEE>hello</MARQUEE></DIV> ... would both the DIV and the MARQUEE be in the XHTML namespace? What if there are explicit namespace declarations? What if there's an XML DTD overriding the namespaces? Does the parser type (HTML, XML) make a diference?
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